Will Percy Jackson Movie Actors Be In Disney+ Show? Rick Riordan Responds
Author Rick Riordan responds to social media discussions involving the actors from the two movie adaptations appearing in the upcoming Percy Jackson Disney+ show. Telling the story of Greek gods and young heroes in the 21st century, The Lightning Thief, the first book in Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, was published in 2005. Since then, the series has become one of the best-selling book series of all time with 180 million copies sold worldwide. The first two Percy Jackson books received movie adaptations, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), both of which were largely criticized by audiences and Riordan himself for their disconnect from the source material.
In 2020, Riordan officially announced that Disney+ was developing a television series that will be faithful to the Percy Jackson series and that he and his wife Becky Riordan are going to be involved in every step of the series' production process. Disney greenlit the Percy Jackson television show at the start of this year, and filming is set to begin in June in Vancouver. The main trio from the series is still being cast, but because the previous movies age-up Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, Riordan assured his fans the Disney+ show characters would be cast to represent the book accurately.
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Last week, Riordan posted another Percy Jackson show update on his website and announced that the production team is beginning to discuss adult casting. During the post, Riordan responded to the numerous social media discussions about whether the Disney+ show will include stars from the two movies as adult characters, saying he doesn't know
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